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starchy tubers are edible cooked or raw. Although palatable and nutritious, the crop is hampered by low productivity. The plant is attractive and susceptible...

important crop in areas that are prone to drought and famine, and is thought of as an 'insurance crop' as it produces reliable yields when all other crops fail...

cm a year, and rooting at the nodes . White clover grows among turfgrass, crops, and in a large number of other landscapes. It is also found in a limited...

years and is optimum from age 30 to 60 years. Good crops can be expected every 2 to 3 years, with light crops during intervening years. Butternut grows best...

Research Center. Retrieved on 2006-09-10. "Crop fact sheet for V. galamensis". Purdue University Center for New Crops and Plant Products. Retrieved on 2006-09-10...

Bunium persicum or black cumin is a plant in the family Apiaceae. Dried B. persicum fruits are used as a culinary spice in Northern India, Tajikistan and...

is now a common table vegetable. The oca is one of the important staple crops of the Andean highlands, second only to the potato due to its easy propagation...

high levels of isothiocyanates. In Colombia, it is planted as a companion crop to repel pests in potato fields. Mashua has also been used to treat nephropathy...

[proteins which bind specific sugars]. Vicia ervilia is one of the first crops domesticated in the Near East. Certain species of vetch are suitable for...

harvest in every season. Enset will tolerate drought better than most cereal crops. Wild enset plants are produced from seeds, while most domesticated plants...

The Wild Cashew or Espavé (Anacardium excelsum; syn. Anacardium rhinocarpus) is a tree in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae. The tree is common...

to be a food crop in other areas in the future, thriving in climates with cool oceanic summers (e.g. western Scotland) where other nut crops do not grow...

grown is sold in health food shops. Grain amaranth is also grown as a food crop in limited amounts in Mexico, where it is used to make a candy called alegría...

previously occupied by its close relatives. Four years should separate successive crops of eggplants. Common North American pests include the potato beetle, flea...

panicle size are not correlated to geographic distribution. Alternative Field Crops Manual Template:Grocers...

wheat Einkorn, a wheat species with a single grain Emmer, one of the first crops domesticated in the Fertile Crescent Durum, the only tetraploid species of...

praised, and it is popular among wild food foragers, but it remains a minor crop, due in part to its low yields and difficulty of harvest. "A description...

planting companion crops that discourage or divert pests using row covers to protect crop plants during pest migration periods rotating crops to different locations...

increasing efficiency and output; however, the diversity of vegetables crops require a number of techniques to be used to optimize the growth of each...

groundcover to limit weeds. The beans provided nitrogen to the roots of all three crops. The squash fruit is classified as a pepo by botanists, which is a special...